HomeKit Home Wrong Location

Ok so this is that pretty common issue people are having with where HomeKit thinks there home is, showing it in an incorrect spot.

It seems this has been a problem for people for a while but only showed up for me in the last day with iOS 17.1. When I check a home automation that uses location is set my home location about 500m away even though its correct in contacts.

I found a fix for now:

Privacy > location > system > significant locations Clear history. Reboot phone. Go back to Home and open automations that use your home locations and check where it thinks home is, mine fixed itself.

BUT! Now thats its fixed I restarted the Home Hub that was being used, and it switched to another Home Hub in my house. As soon as it did it thinks I'm not home again so something to do with the address storing on the home hub too. Did the fix above again and it worked again.

Of course. Have tried everything. Multiple support cases with Apple. This is very clearly a software bug hence why none of the troubleshooting steps work. It’s a waste of time. Apple will need to fix whatever this is via software update. The more people that report the problem the higher the likelihood that happens. So if you haven’t, report the issue to Apple Support. They don’t monitor the forums.

Guess what! 17.2 made my location move again… At least it is somewhere new every time. amazing

Same problem here. When i change the private address in my contact card it actually uses that location also for homekit automation. But after a few days it breaks again. Seems like something is interfering with the contact card and pushing a wrong location into the home app. also, i've noticed the wrong location is somewhere in the middle of nowhere and not always at the same spot.

Hi all, unfortunately I've the same problem and I've not found a solution.

Just to share my experience when I click on Home in my automation it shows on map my Work location.

I've tried deleting and resetting both Home and Work location in my user setting but it had no effect.

In Maps application instead both Home and Work location works as expected.

I have the same problem…. 😔 why Apple not invest seriosly in HomeKit.

We may hope that Apple will fix this stupid issue very soon. I have disabled all my automations where location is included, so now my 'Smart Home' is not smart anymore. 🫤

It has been working for years without any glitches, but iOS 17 did something .....

Myself and a lot of other people have the same problem.

Deleting frequent locations on all phones of the home repairs it most of the time for a few hours. Then it randomly moves the home location again.

It is unusable right now.

Here is a Reddit thread showing the problem existing for a few years now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/114fyjm/home_app_home_location_moved_seen_in_automations/?sort=new

I've the same problem. Last night, the HomeKit location changed, and all automations relying on location no longer work. It seems that the problem is common. Is there a solution? What does Apple support think about this?

This is very annoying. I set up the automation to turn the light on and a lot of stuff when I arrived home. Before iOS 17, it worked by manually setting up the home range to 300 meters. Now, it doesn't store a specific range anymore.

I often wake up in the middle of the night when the lights turn on suddenly. What a joke.

At my house it was fine now for the past few days.

This morning none of my automations were working again.

i checked the location of my home and it moved by itself a few hundred meters away again.

I did not make any changes to any settings…

Since I updated to 17.1 the location is exactly positioned where home location is shown in Apple Maps. Before the update it was off a few hundred meters again.

Maybe the bug fix for frequent locations also solved our problem.

Has anyone had the problem with 17.1?

I will keep an eye on it over the next few days.

I have the same issue. It reset my home location to 2 miles down the road from my home. Before driving home I changed my home address in my contacts to be associated with school and not home. I drove home and then reset my home address to be labeled home and it was fixed. This will be my third attempt at fixing this in different ways. Additionally for some reason my wife cannot be invited to this home or any home at the moment. Can someone let me know if there is a fix for this. I am in desperate need of being able to invite my side back to be an owner of the home and it always gives the error “cannot complete this operation”. It’s becoming infuriating.

Ok everything broke again last night so I tried a different fix from reddit. Can confirm this works also as a fix;

1. Leave all homehubs on

2. Shut off all wifi in my house so everything disconnected from network

3. Turn all wifi on and homehubs and devices will connect

4. Wait a few minutes and it seems to fix itself (for now)

The solution for me was to reset all location settings on all devices with Home configured. Every time I reset one device, I would turn it off. Once all are off, I turn them one by one and check (before turning on the next one) if in Home app my home location is back to normal.